People
- William Pitt (courtier) (1559–1636), English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625
- William Augustus Pitt (c. 1728–1809), British general
- Ali'i William Pitt Kalanimoku (1768–1827), Prime Minister of Kamehameha the Great who adopted the name of the British Prime Minister at the time
- Ali'i William Pitt Leleiohoku I (1821–1848), husband of Princess Hariett Nahienaena and Princess Ruth Keelikolani and son of Kalanimoku
- William Pitt Kīnau (1842–1859), prince of Hawaii and son of Keelikolani and Chief Leleiohoku
- William Pitt Leleiohoku II (1854–1877), Crown Prince of Hawaii and heir apparent of King David Kalakaua
- William Baker Pitt (1856–1936), founder of Swindon Town F.C. and Catholic prebendary
- William Rivers Pitt (born 1971), left-wing American essayist
- William Pitt (architect) (1855–1918), Australian 19th century architect
- William Pitt (engineer) (1821–?), Canadian inventor of the underwater cable ferry in the early 1900s
- William Pitt (Mormon) (1813–1873), early Mormon bandleader
- William Pitt (ship-builder) (died 1840), author of The Sailor's Consolation
- Bill Pitt (born 1937), British politician and Liberal Member of Parliament for Croydon North West, 1981–1983
- Brad Pitt (William Bradley Pitt, born 1963), American actor
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